"We caressed the scaly skin of Uluru... we gazed at themoons of Jupiter up in the clear black night sky" Ear to the ground in Australia... When my friend Spud told me to lie down and press my ear to the blacktop, I wondered whether the packet of bush biscuits we’d just finished had a … Continue reading Australian Memoir 1997
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List three books that have had an impact on you. Why?
Great Expectations... Because it is about a young man trying to work out who he is. The Catcher In The Rye... Because it is about a young man trying to work out who he is. 1984 Because it is about a not-so young man trying to hold on to who he is.
Jot down the first thing that comes to your mind.
What’s the most fun way to exercise?
By exercising the brain rather than the body.
What Olympic sports do you enjoy watching the most?
It changes every four years At the last Olympics, for reasons I wouldn't want a psychiatrist to investigate, the gold medal 🥇 went to skateboarding, with the acrobatic BMX bikers coming in second place. The Olympics before that I got hooked on swimming.
How have you adapted to the changes brought on by the Covid-19 pandemic?
Predictably, not that anyone could be bothered to predict it I've embraced online shopping in a way that makes the #technorulingclass scream with ecstacy. They do it every day, every time I ditch the idea of standing up, going out and visiting a shop that sells the thing I want and sit, like my arse … Continue reading How have you adapted to the changes brought on by the Covid-19 pandemic?
What are your morning rituals? What does the first hour of your day look like?
'It features severed heads and penises...' All is stillness. I wake early, normally with an idea or notion I must tap urgently into my scrapbook. Today it was an entry about an audiobook I've just finished. It features a serial killer whose victims are just about anyone who gets on her nerves. It features severed … Continue reading What are your morning rituals? What does the first hour of your day look like?
Which aspects do you think makes a person unique?
The way they laugh.
Do you ever see wild animals?
Quite often, but... Especially in the dead of the night, after eating cheese. They stare at me with their oily black eyes until I'm stood stock still, rigid with fear. Then, on some kind of psychic cue, they slip back their lips to show me the killer razors they have for teeth. One of them, … Continue reading Do you ever see wild animals?
What’s the hardest decision you’ve ever had to make? Why?
I wear green with blue.
What’s the best piece of advice you’ve ever received?
Have sex and travel.
Write about your most epic baking or cooking fail.
I once tried to impress my then girlfriend (now my wife of 36 years) by serving her a fish-finger pizza, with Bird's Eye fish fingers (only the best) arranged on a Margherita pizza in the shape of a wagon wheel.
What are you doing this evening?
Finishing the audiobook of Agatha Christie's The ABC Murders with a nice glass of red wine.
How do you relax?
Stitching
What’s your favourite time of day?
Early evening, or as Sheldon describes it, "prevening".
Tell us about the last thing you got excited about.
Using the wool threads I got for my birthday today...
What change, big or small, would you like your blog to make in the world?
A spreading smile that journeys to infinity and beyond
What are you curious about?
What motivates JK Rowling in her increasingly cantankerous arguments about gender
If you won two free plane tickets, where would you go?
Somewhere over the rainbow, where they weigh pies.
Dogs or cats?
Dogs Cats are sneaky, selfish and malevolent.
Billy's Scrapbook 